Scarborough v. Nicholson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that specialization in Supreme Court litigation did not constitute “special factor”
• noting that, where agency conceded that its position at the administrative level was not substantially justified, fee applicant had “cleared the substantial-justification hurdle” for EAJA award eligibility, obviating need to consider agency’s position in litigation
• rejecting specialization in Supreme Court litigation as a special factor under the EAJA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Robert J. McDonald v. R. James Nicholson
  Veterans Claims· 2007-05-24· cited 16×
• Zuri Zuberi v. R. James Nicholson
  Veterans Claims· 2006-05-03· cited 15×
• Alfred W. Vahey v. R. James Nicholson
  Veterans Claims· 2006-07-21· cited 12×
• Former Employees of BMC Software, Inc. v. United States Secretary of Labor
  Court of International Trade· 2007-10-15· cited 12×
• Alva Jandreau v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2009-04-08· cited 7×
• R. Edward Bates v. R. James Nicholson
  Veterans Claims· 2006-07-18· cited 5×
• Robert J. Kiddey v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2009-02-12· cited 5×
• Jackson v. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2009-04-29· cited 5×
• Thomas P. Chotta v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2009-06-05· cited 3×
• Melvin Aponte v. R. James Nicholson
  Veterans Claims· 2007-09-24· cited 2×
• Brian J. Hart v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2009-03-11· cited 2×
• Brass v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2016-07-22· cited 2×
• Randy C. Garrison v. James B. Peake
  Veterans Claims· 2008-07-14· cited 1×
• Carolyn J. Patrick v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2010-07-19· cited 1×
• Randall C. Scarborough v. R. James Nicholson
  Veterans Claims· 2005-08-25

Cites

53 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Blum v. Stenson
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 7,642×
• Pierce v. Underwood
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-27· cited 6,197×
• Shalala v. Schaefer
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 4,378×
• Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Inc. v. West Virginia Dept. of Health and Human Resources
  Supreme Court· 2001-05-29· cited 3,075×
• Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 1,875×
• Scarborough v. Principi
  Supreme Court· 2004-05-03· cited 692×
• Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-09-28· cited 522×
• Marie Lucie Jean v. Alan C. Nelson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-12-27· cited 505×
• Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1983-08-04· cited 409×
• Covington v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-06-23· cited 317×
• Edelman v. Lynchburg College
  Supreme Court· 2002-03-19· cited 238×
• Hong-Yee Chiu v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1991-10-29· cited 201×
• Stillwell v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1994-03-11· cited 156×
• Charles W. Bazalo, Claimant-Appellant v. Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  Federal Circuit· 1998-08-06· cited 120×
• Love v. Reilly
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-02-01· cited 109×
• F.J. Vollmer Company, Inc. v. John W. Magaw, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, U.S. Department of the Treasury
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-12-24· cited 100×
• Select Milk Producers, Inc. v. Johanns
  D.C. Circuit· 2005-03-18· cited 95×
• Locher v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1996-11-26· cited 75×
• Sumner v. Principi
  Veterans Claims· 2001-11-06· cited 73×